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The Water Cooler Title: Termites Eat $43,000 In Safe TAIWAN - A woman has recently turned to the Investigation Bureau to help her exchange bundles of damaged bills originally worth a total of NT$1 million (S$42,750) for new ones after she found the files of cash she stored in her safe had been eaten by termites. However, the forensic expert only managed to piece together NT$26,000 in notes from the piles of damaged bills, according to a local media report yesterday. The woman, surnamed Chen, who graduated from a Taipei university last year, was originally going to spend the NT$1 million to study aboard, according to the Chinese-language Apple Daily report yesterday. It took her eight years of hard work to come up with the money which she stored at a safe in her house. This April, Chen found that termites had eaten most of the piles of cash in the safe. She later sought out the Investigation Bureau for help after a bank refused to honor the bills. The bills were sent to the bureau's forensic unit for further examination. They will be honored based on the number of bills the experts succeed in restoring. After spending a week trying to re-piece the notes, forensic experts only managed to restore NT$26,000 from the piles of money, the report said. The bureau urged people to put their money in banks to avoid similar incidents from happening again. Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest How the hell do termites get into a safe? "It is impossible to talk reason with those who can only parrot Party Slogans." sneakypete Sept 2011 Stay Hungry...Stay Foolish --Steve Jobs Steve Jobs,life-long Dim,and major Barry Soetoro supporter. #2. To: sneakypete (#1) ' safe ' termites are tiny ! If you ... don't use exclamation points --- you should't be typeing ! Commas - semicolons - question marks are for girlie boys ! #3. To: Brian S (#0) The bureau urged people to put their money in banks to avoid similar incidents from happening again. Sure, I'll get right on it. Dang banksters.
#4. To: BorisY (#2) termites are tiny ! Banjo boy, your wisdom astounds me on occasion.
#5. To: sneakypete (#1) How the hell do termites get into a safe? Termites need 2 things to survive food and a water source. And it's usually the water source that attracts them in the first place, the food is secondary... Or so I was told by the exterminator when he was trying to get rid of those little insidious bastards from my Mom's house years ago..... Political Bumper Stickers: The fastest way in the world to let people know you are a total dumbass.... Total number of Obama 2012 bumper stickers I've seen so far......5.. Total number of Romney 2012 bumper stickers I've seen so far...0.. Total number of Obama vs GW Bush 2012 bumper stickers....2!! #6. To: CZ82 (#5) Termites need 2 things to survive food and a water source. And it's usually the water source that attracts them in the first place, the food is secondary... Even IF there was a bowl of water stored inside the safe,safes are airtight. If air can't get into them,termites can't get into them. "It is impossible to talk reason with those who can only parrot Party Slogans." sneakypete Sept 2011 Stay Hungry...Stay Foolish --Steve Jobs Steve Jobs,life-long Dim,and major Barry Soetoro supporter. #7. To: sneakypete (#6) Even IF there was a bowl of water stored inside the safe,safes are airtight. If air can't get into them,termites can't get into them. But what makes them airtight, a rubber gasket?? Which they could chew thru in short time... Personally I think she had it somewhere else and that's when they chewed on it.. Political Bumper Stickers: The fastest way in the world to let people know you are a total dumbass.... Total number of Obama 2012 bumper stickers I've seen so far......5.. Total number of Romney 2012 bumper stickers I've seen so far...0.. Total number of Obama vs GW Bush 2012 bumper stickers....2!! #8. To: CZ82 (#7) But what makes them airtight, a rubber gasket?? No. They are fitted that closely to prevent anybody from jamming something in the gaps to break into them. And I'm not sure termites will even eat rubber,anyway. Personally I think she had it somewhere else and that's when they chewed on it. I do,too. I think she maybe dug it up out of a neighbors back yard. She is too young to have saved that much money as a college student in Taiwan. "It is impossible to talk reason with those who can only parrot Party Slogans." sneakypete Sept 2011 Stay Hungry...Stay Foolish --Steve Jobs Steve Jobs,life-long Dim,and major Barry Soetoro supporter. Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest |
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